The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-19
Mr. VGrady and Twenty of Els Friends Fur
nish an Abundance of Entertainment and
Excitement for the MiniOns of the Law.
An Encounter with Peasantry in Which
Five Policemen We're Wounded
A Joker Calls 'Fire." in q Crowded Hall, q
Panic Ensues, and Several Women and
Boys Are Killed-News by Cable.
\ SPIRITED CONTEST.

4 SPIRITED CONTEST.
Troubles of the Police in Enforcing Evic- |
tions-Cottages Leveled TO the Ground.
LONDON, Jan. 18-Excitlng scenes were wit |
messed, to-day, near Caherconlist, County Linn
erick, the occasion being the eviction of Edmund |
O'Grady, tenant on the Gabbett estate. In |
was conveyed to OGrady that force |
Of $50 policemen and baiffs, under command of |
Captain Plunkett was coming to evict him. and |
he prepared to give them warm reception. |
With the assistance of neghbors he cut down
trees and shrubbery, with which he barrcaded
the house. Then OGrady and his friends pro-
ceeded to the upper story of the house, cut
away the staircase behind them, and stationed
themselves at the windows to await the
coming of the enemy. The evictng party
soon arrived and stormed the house with sledge-
hammers and bayonets Ladders were placed
against the walls, up which policemen and
bailiffs swarmed; but the defenders threw boil
ing water upon their assalants, and hurled the
ladders to the ground. The attacking party a6-
vanced repeatedly upon the house. and were as
often repulsed the contest lasting fully three
hours. Ultimately hole was cut in the upper
floor. through which some of the policemen
the house with rifles, threatening to fire if the
slightest hostile movement was made. The
eviction was then effected, and several persons
were arrested. During the excitement crowds
Of people gathered about the house and cheered
the defenders. For this display of sympathy
they were repeatedly charged upon by the police
and vigorously clubbed number of police
men and citizens were injured in the eviction.
A special correspondent of Glenbeign County
Kerry ireland, who is isinvest;gating!the evictions
on the Winn estates. telegraphs that 150 police
men and bailiffs started for Coomashorn, wild
and almost inaccessible glen, to evict the occu-
pants of nine houses the only dwellings in the
neiehborhood. The peasantry learned Of their
approach and removed the usual means of cross
ing the stream, near the glen, and which was
swollen by the recent storms This delayed the
evictors in doing their work, as the police, rather
than wet their feet by fording the stream.
preferred to make long detour Then the
psasantry, who rejoiced in the trouble they had
caused the police and baiffs, carried the report
and others who were friendly to the tenants
across the stream on their backs. The police,
with much difficulty, finally succeeded in climb
ing the glen. Then, with fixed bayonets, they
proceeded to the houses amid the groans of the
people. and ordered them to be vacated. Sew
eral of them have already been emptied The
work of eviction is proceeding After the ten
ants leave the houses are leveled with crow
bars. The burning Of vacated dwellings has
been abandoned, owing to the government pres
sure on the landlords.
The sheriff Of Gwedor, County Donegal, ac-
companed by strong posse of police, started
| on an eviction campaign in the bloody foreland
| to-day, and after proceeding short distance
found that the road had been effectively block
AIDED with bowlders by the peasantry Leaving
their horses and carts. they pushed ahead on
foot, taking path lying between the mountains
and the sea. They made very little
headway before discovering that the pathway
was also blocked. and that large body of
peasants stood behind the barricade ready to
defend it. Sharp fighting ensued, in which FIVE
policemen were badly wounded priest, who
was among the defenders of the blockade, sue
| ceeded in calming the people and stopping
the night. The police then clambered
to the house OF tenant named
Gallagher. whom they evicted They did not
however enforce any other evictions as they
! were unable to identity either the cottages OF
their tenants. After the police had departed the
peasants reinstated Gallagher. and declared their
| intention to resist his re-expulsion by force.
great many writs of ejectment had been granted
for this region, but it is not expected they vii
be served. The country about Gwedore
and in the bloody foreland is the wildos
imaginable: it is almost inaccessible, and the in
habitants are possessed Of degree of trucu
lence commensurate with the country. The Do
lice, after retiring from Galaeher's house, re
turned by the pathway over which they came
and narrowly escaped being crushed to death b,
large masses of granite, which rolled down tn,
mountain side SO close TO them that they wer
obliged to run at top speed to get out of thei
way. 1t is not known whether the granit
powders were rolled down with malicious in
tent. or merely became detached and descende'
naturally.